This essential core text introduces readers to metaphysics. In thoughtful and engaging prose, Peter van Inwagen examines three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why is there a world? And, what is the place of human beings in the world? The third edition includes an entirely new chapter on ontology. The new chapter presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology: the problem of non-existent objects and the problem of universals. Equally valuable as a textbook in a university course or an introduction to metaphysical thinking for the interested layperson, Metaphysics remains a fascinating book for a wide range of readers, from first-time students to the most sophisticated philosophers. Contents 1. Introduction Part One: The Way the World Is
2. Individuality
3. Externality
4. Temporality
5. Objectivity Part Two: Why the World Is
6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument Part Three: The Inhabitants of the World
8. What Rational Beings Are There?
9. The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose
10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism
11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity
12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will
13. Concluding Meditation
14. Coda: Being
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近日在看一本今人寫的教材《形而上學》,在其中討論的諸多問題之外蹦齣一個問題來:什麼是理性? 是的,形而上學討論根本的存在。相當多的形而上學問題中都有“理性”這個字眼。關於理性存在物的,關於宇宙是否是被理性地創造的。理性未加省視地被賦予瞭褒義,成為一種高級的...
評分如作者所言,本書即可以作為沒有哲學基礎的一般讀者的入門書,也可以供哲學專業的同學學習和思考形而上學問題之用(這時候可能需要補充一些哲學史和哲學原著)。 貫穿全書的是一係列問題,而書的三部分就正是對應瞭三個形而上學核心問題: 1. 世界是怎樣的?世界的最一般特徵是...
評分導論寫的挺有趣的。簡直引人入勝,聲情並茂。 說一個明顯的翻譯上的小bug。 譯文第39頁,引用奧義書,上來就“你是藝術!”根據前後文莫名其妙。 關藝術個啥呢? 一看原文:That art Thou! “這就是你!”
評分如果有一門學問可以通過自嘲獲得人們的同情和熱愛,通過迴顧自己被拉下王座、牆倒眾推的曆史來博得人們的肅然起敬,通過不斷敘述自己如何被對手毆打的遍體鱗傷逐齣各個理性領域而引發人們對其價值的肯定,那麼它無疑是形上學。
評分導論寫的挺有趣的。簡直引人入勝,聲情並茂。 說一個明顯的翻譯上的小bug。 譯文第39頁,引用奧義書,上來就“你是藝術!”根據前後文莫名其妙。 關藝術個啥呢? 一看原文:That art Thou! “這就是你!”
圖書標籤: 哲學 形而上學 分析哲學 Philosophy metaphysics 英文原版 教材 Metaphysics
This damn book is killing me. And I hate Bradley!!
評分這本書寫得很好笑啊,為什麼大傢這麼嚴肅。然而輕鬆幽默也是有代價的,有些論證並沒有說服力。
評分好評!
評分好評!
評分P74-75:we call the aggregate of fixed moments pastward from the moment “the past” and the aggregate of fixed moments furtureward from the moment “the furture”。Thus the past is continuously growing and the furture contituously shriking。Many have found it natural to picture time as a river flowing furtureward,and to pic us the inhabitants of time
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